adv. [f. LUSCIOUS a. + -LY2.] In a luscious manner.
1566. Drant, Horace’s Sat., VIII. I vij. Some people … Wyll … make their cookes looshiously, theyr delicates to dresse.
1660. G. Fleming, Stemma Sacrum, Ep. Ded. 6. The spices of Arabia are said to be lushiously redolent to those that are distant from it some hundreds of miles.
1710. Palmer, Proverbs, Pref. 14. An uncautious wanton writer can possibly give the vice he has too lusciously describ’d.
1779–81. Johnson, L. P., Milton, Wks. II. 147. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant.
1897. Mrs. Lynn Linton, Geo. Eliot, in Women Novelists, 64. Those lusciously suggestive epithets. Ibid., 68. Hetty Sorrel with her soft caressing lusciously-loving outside, and her heart ‘as hard as a cherry-stone.’
